 | Visiting Professor rbwallac@syr.edu Curriculum Vitae [PDF] |
Richard Wallach L’06 joined the College of Law in Spring 2024 as a Visiting Professor. He teaches Legal Communication and Research to first-year students.
Immediately prior to joining Syracuse Law, Wallach practiced immigration law at Hiscock Legal Aid Society in Syracuse, NY, and in private practice.
From 2006 until 2022, Wallach served as the Career Law Clerk to the Honorable Kathleen Cardone in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. In this role, he supported the Judge by drafting orders and opinions, providing legal counsel, and supervising the Judge’s term law clerks. Wallach also assisted Judge Cardone in her role as Chair of the Committee to Review the Criminal Justice Act Program.
Wallach earned a J.D. summa cum laude in 2006 from Syracuse University College of Law, an M.A. in East Asian Studies from Yale University, and a B.A. in Economics from Haverford College. He also attended The Stanford Center in Taipei, Taiwan for the intensive study of Mandarin Chinese.
While a student at the College of Law, he was the Managing Editor of Syracuse Law Review and was a member of the Order of the Coif and the Justinian Honor Society. Wallach also served as a summer law clerk to the Honorable Rosemary Pooler of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Before his legal career, Wallach held various management positions of increasing responsibility at FAME Information Services, a technology and information company based in New York, NY. FAME’s products were widely used in the financial services and energy industries and among government agencies around the globe.
Wallach began his professional career in 1989 as an English teacher in China at Beijing University and Renmin University.
He was admitted to the New York State Bar in 2007.